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GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
Notes of General Merest PicM Ur
All Oyer the State.
Walton county has been credited by
the press with a decrease of $20,359
in tax values, when it should have
been an increase of $20,359.
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An eagle killed in' Decatur county a
few days ago, wore a small leather
strap on its leg, which had been there
a long time. The question is, whose
pet was the bird in its youth.
All passengers going into the city of
Savannah must now furnish health cer¬
tificates with the assurance that they
have not been to or had any communi¬
cation with Brunswick in twenty
days.
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Milledgeville people are elated over
the fact that the lease of the Mil¬
ledgeville and Eatonton to the Middle
Georgia and Atlantic will put the town
fifty miles nearer to Atlanta. Mil¬
ledgeville will now be the terminus of
both roads, adding much to the pros¬
perity of the town.
The barn of Mr. George Gilmore, a
wealthy farmer residing about twenty
miles south of Sparta, was destroyed
by fire a few days ago. Almost 3,000
bushels of oats, 300 bushels of corn,
two Jersey cows, two standard bred
horses, and several buggies and carri¬
ages were also destroyed by the fire.
The loss is said to approach $10,000;
insurance, $2,000.
The fact that some cities have quar¬
antined against Atlanta seems to have
created the impression that there is
yellow fever in the city. So far from
that being true, there is not a single
case there, nor has there been. At¬
lanta has opened her doors to the
refugees from Brunswick and other
stricken cities, but there has not even
been a suspicious case among the thou¬
sands who entered her gates.
No possible estimate can be made of
the damage to the cotton crop by the
storm. Savannah cotton men say the
damage cannot be less than $300,000
to $400,000. In the cotton fields,,
within the area of the storm, the plant
was entirely torn up by the roots, and
in other places bolls and opening cot¬
ton were blown off. The crop iq. the
area of the storm is something like
500,000 bales or more, and so far as
can be determined three-fourths of it
is a total loss.
The Macon jury boxes have been
revised. In the old grand jury box
there are 179 names and in the tra¬
verse jury box 1,225 names. It is not
known what changes will be made by
the commissioners. Under the new
law the names of all grand jurors have
to be put in the traverse jury box as
well as the grand jury box, and thus a
grand juror is liable to do double duty
in serving on both the grand and tra¬
verse jury. There has been a com¬
plaint that not enough names have
been put in the grand jury box.
Collector Paul Trammel has again
been honored by an appointment from
Washington. He received a few days ago
from secretary of the treasrury the
commission as custodian of the custom
house at Atlanta. The place is now
held by C. C. Wimbish, who was ap¬
pointed under Harrison’s administra¬
tion. There is no salary attached to
it, but there is a lot of work, as the
custodian has to see after buying all of
the supplies needed, and has to hire
the help about the house, the engineer,
the janitor, a man to clean up and two
women to do the scouring.
The rice planters are the heaviest
sufferers from Sunday’s storm in the
vicinity of Savannah. The loss to the
planters of the Savannah, Ogeechee,
Altamaha and Satilla rivers by the
storm is not less than $400,000, and in
all probability will greatly exceed that
amount. This is based upon an esti¬
mate that the damage to the crops is
fully 60 per cent. Some declare the
crop to be a total loss and this is un¬
doubtedly the case on some planta¬
tions. All the rice which was cut and
stacked in the fields was swept away.
The planters had been cutting about
a week, and there was a considerable
quantity of gr.ain stacked in the fields.
The Athens Banner says: If some
of our suburban land owners would
come down a notch on prices they
might get many purchasers who would
take the lands and improve them in
the way of grape culture and truck
farming. Despite hard times there are
many men who would scrape together
money enough to go into this business
and thus help themselves, the city and
all concerned. Let inducements be
held out to the people to settle up the
farm lands around Athens, and the
movement, if made successful, will en
hance the values of all additional
lands, and do great good in building
up the interests of the city. Let the
experiment be tried.
The apportionment of the public
school fund for this year, as completed
by State School Commissioner Brad
weU - base * oa the sch ° o1 population
as shown by the recent school census
Chatham county’s share to be
$27,172.50. Under the new enum
eration the apportionment of the
school fund has been entirely read
justed, some counties getting a larger
proportion and others a smaller share,
because some counties have increased
in school population while other have
decreased. Chatham has increased
largely since the enumeration upon
which the apportionment for the past
five years has been based, and there
fore is considerably Ipenefitted by the
recent census .—Savannah Nemtt
.
A Great Convention.
The ministers and Christian work¬
ers of Atlanta are looking forward
with much interest to the big conven¬
tion which will meet in the city this
fall. Letters received from Rev. J.
C. Collins, the advance agent of the
convention, who is now at his home
in New Haven, indicate that the crowd
to attend the convention will be equal¬
ly as large as the one which met last
year in Boston, barring the number
which attended from that city. The
meetings will be held in DeGive’ op¬
era house, which has a seating capaci¬
ty of about 3,000, and the convention
will assemble on the 9th of next No¬
vember. It will be the largest gath¬
ering of delegates that has ever met
in the city, and practical methods for
reaching the poor and ignorant un¬
converted will be discussed. Many of
the most active Christian workers in
the land will attend the convention.
Harris County Teachers.
The Harris county teachers at their
annual institute, adopted the
resolutions:
“Whereas, The teachers of Georgia
made to endure great hardships
suffer great inconvenience through
unjust mode of payment for servi¬
renderedmnder the present law of
we, the teachers of Harris
at the annual session of the
institute, do offer the follow¬
ing:
“Resolved 1, That the teachers of
public schools in the state of Georgia
by the fact of their holding a license
from the state and being required to
teach as the law directs, are public
officers or servants of the state and
should, therefere, be paid as other
public officers of the state.
“Resolveded 2. That we submit our
claims to the general assembly of
Georgia for quarterly payment, and
respectfully ask that some plan be de¬
vised by which the teachers of Geor¬
gia be paid the amounts due them by
the state at least once a quarter.
“Resolved 3. That white and color¬
ed institutes be held at different
times.
“Resolved 4. That the monthly in¬
stitutes be abolished and the five days
combined with the annual session,
making ten days or more, to be held
consecutively and at a time that will
not interfere with the schools while in
session.
THE HOME RULE BILL
Passes tlie House of Commons
First Reading in House of Lords.
A London cable dispatch says:
house of commons agreed to
the 12 o’clock rule Friday night
order that the third reading of
home rule bill might be concluded
fore adjournment. The
speakers were Justin McCarthy,
Morley and Chamberlain and Balfour.
The time having arrived for the
reading of the bill, the speaker form¬
ally put the motion and ordered a
vision of the house. Mr.
was the first to record his vote,
Mr. Morley was the last. Each
given The an ovation, as was also Balfour.
division resulted; For the
tion, 301; against, 267.
When the figures were announced
the Irish members sprang to their feet
and cheered wildly, waving hats and
handkerchiefs and the like, while the
opposition members raised their coun¬
ter cheers and shouts of “resign!
resign!”
The house then adjourned. Imme¬
diately after the sitting of the house
of lords was resumed and five minutes
later the home rule bill passed it on
the first reading. '■
Lighthouse Service Damaged.
A Washington special of Friday
says: The lighthouse service, as a re¬
sult of the recent storm near Charles
ton, sustained serious losses. Among
them are: Total loss of lightship, sta
tioned off Rattlesnake shoals; Morris
island range-light keeper’s dwelling at
Fort Sumter, lighthouse depot at Cas
tie Pinkney, lighthouse tenders Wes
tria and Taros badly damaged and all
the buoys in Charleston harbor de
stroyed or out of place,
Cholera In Jersey City.
A New York special of Friday, says:
L ea lth inspector of J ersey City
announces Martin Crowe, officially that the death of
at the Jersey City hos
pitaL wa s caused by Asiatio cholera,
Another case—that of Mrs. Shoda
Black suspected to be suffering from
tbe Bame disease, is still under inves¬
tigation.
THE HEWS IN GENERAL.
from Onr Most Important
Telegraphic Advices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada¬
ble Paragraphs.
Sunday’s dispatches state that no
new cases of cholera have developed in
Jersey City.
A large part of the business portion
of the town of Magnolia, Ark., was de¬
stroyed by fire Friday morning. The
loss is $40,000, insurance $22,000.
At 6 o’clock Sunday evening the
Lotiisviile and Nashville railroad em¬
ployes of all classes except telegraph
operators, in Evansville, Ind., struck.
Pierre Lorillard has decided to sell
his entire stable of horses in training
and to temporarily retire from the
turf. The first sale eomes off at
Sheepshead Bay, September 8th.
A dispatch from Woodsville, N. H.,
says: There was a severe frost on the
highlands in this region Saturday
night. Vegetation was damaged con¬
siderably, but a heavy fog saved the
river crops.
A cable dispatch states that more
than sixty thousand miners resumed
work in South Wales Thursday. This
means practically the collape of the
strike in South Wales and Monmouth¬
shire.
The immense building occupied by
the Gray’s Ferry Foundry and Boiler
Company, at Philadelphia was almost
totally destroyed by fire Thursday
night. The loss is estimated at $150,
000; insurance not known. About one
hundred men are thrown out of em¬
ployment.
A St. Louis dispatch of Sunday says:
Charles A. Gunn, under arrest as a
suspected train robber, has been pos¬
itively identified by the crew of the
Mobile' and Ohio train he held up in
June last and his case has been turned
over to the officials of the Southern Ex 1 -
press company, who will prosecute.
Outlaws held up the ’Frisco passen
ger train at the little town 'of
Mound Valley, Kas,, at 4 o’clock Sun¬
day morning, shot and killed Express
Messenger Chapman and robbed the
passengers. They secured nothing
from the express car, but not a pas¬
senger escaped. Even the women
were relieved of jewels and money.
Dispatches from Arkansas City
bring news of a fight between the
Dalton gang and the United States
marshal’s posse, in which two of the
marshal’s men were killed and Deputy
Houston fatally wounded. N. A.
Walker, N. D. Murray, G. W. Ransom
and a boy armed Briggs were wounded
and a young man named Simmons in¬
stantly killed.
A cable dispatch from London states
that the house of commons will not
adjourn before September 27th. The
leaders of the unionists are busy plot-’
ting trouble for Mr. Gladstone. Bal¬
four, Chamberlain and Sir Henry
James decided in a conference Satur¬
day to defer as long as possible the
adjournment, and thus defeat the gov¬
ernment’s plan for an autumn session.
A terrible accident to the Western
express No. 16, Boston and Albany
railroad, due at Springfield at 1:15
o’clock, happened at the second rail¬
road bridge east of Chester Thurs¬
day. The bridge collapsed, letting
the train through into the river below.
Five cars went through. Fifteen dead
bodies were taken from the wreck.
About fifteen were seriously injured
and five or Bix may die.
What will prove, perhaps, the most
disastrous street car accident ever re¬
corded took place in Cincinnati Sun¬
day evening at 7 o’clock. An electric
car dashed down a hill at frightful
speed, left the track, broke a telegraph
pole and shot into a saloon, wrecking
both it and the structure it struck.
As a result of the collision two people
are dead, nearfy six injured beyond recovery
and forty more are hurt, many
dangerously.
A Denver, Col., dispatch says: Dr.
Thatcher Graves, the convicted poison¬
er of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, com¬
mitted suicide in his cell in the county
jail Saturday night, presumably by
taking poison. On his person was
found a note which ran as follows:
“To the Coroner of Denver. Dear
Sir: Please don’t hold any autopsy on
my remains. The cause of death may
be rendered as follows: ‘Died from
persecution; worn out, esj- austed. *
A New York dispatch of Saturday
gives the statement for the Georgia
railroad for the year ending June
30th, which shows: Net earnings,
$484,771, an increase of 109,444;
charges, $626,727, an increase of
$2,011, and deficit, $141,956, a de¬
crease of $107,433. Coupons from
the Georgia Pacific Railroad com¬
pany’s 5 per cent, equipment mort¬
gage bonds due August 1, 1893, will be
paid by the receivers on presentation
at the Central Trust company of New
York.
A Washington special Qf Sunday
says: The United States treasury is
depleted. But little over the gold re¬
serve remains. Funds must, there¬
fore, be raised at once. President
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle had
a conference Saturday and agreed that
of all the plans proposed the best was
to coin the seigniorage of silver now
in the treasury. That amounts to
$52,000,000. Mr. Carlisle talked with
the leaders of both houses of congress
about the matter and found them
all in favor of the plan.
NEWS FROM PORT ROYAL.
fllany More Dead Bodies Being Found
and Unceremoniously Buried.
A special from Port Royal, S. C.,
states that the islands around Port
Royal and Beaufort presented a sad¬
der scene Friday than was that of
Thursday,. The waters have begun
receding rapidly, and as they disap¬
pear, leaving the land in view, pictures
of desolation and destruction multi¬
ply. Dead bodies are being found on
all portions of every one of the islands
and in most instances decomposition
has gone so far that anything like a
certain recognition is almost impos¬
sible. .
The discovery of the bodies is sad
enough but the burial which they are
given enhances the sadness of the
story: No one has time now to join a
funeral cortege unless the funeral be
that of a member of his own family.
Those who have »ot lost by death a
relative are kept busy repairing the
damage to their property or saving what
they can from the wreckage. The dead,
when found, are left on the ground
where discovered until grave diggers
can be secured. Then a shallow
hole is made in the earth by scooping
out the mud. No digging is now
necessary, as the earth is almost a
puddle for from two to ten feetj The
hole once made the body is dumped
in without coffin or clergy and the
mud trampled back again. Sometimes
the discoveries are so frequent and the
burials so multiplied that more than
one body is placed in the same hole.
THE WOMEN RESCUED.
They Were Passengers on the Wrecked
Steamer Savannah.
At 2 o’clock Friday the tug Paulsen
arrived at Savannah with all of the
missing lady passengers of the City
of Savannah safe aboard. A great re¬
ception was extended them. When
the tug was sighted the news ran like
wild-fire over the city. A great crowd
quickly assembled on the wharf below
the city exchange. As the Paulsen
came uplshe was saluted by tugs and
other steam crafts in the river. Marine
glasses showed that the decks of the
puffing little boat were crowded.
A number of them were taken off
Harbor island and the others from
Hunting island. At the former place
they were the guests at Senator Don
Cameron’s winter home, and at the
latter they were cared for at the homes
of the lighthouse keepers.
The women looked dilapidated when
they came off the tug. None had a
change of clothes when they left the
wreck and some had only their
night dresses. These were provided
for by the islanders, but not with
fashionable garments. All the ladies
were browned by the sun and the sea
spray. They tell the experiences of
their trip through the breakers in the
small boats. The sailors worked nobly
and skilfully. Their passengers were
Boaked through and through but that
was no novel experience after the day
and night in the rigging.
A STAY LAW WANTED.
South Carolina Farmers Request an
Extra Session of the Legislature.
The farmers are beooming alarmed
at the likelihood of having to market
their cotton at present prices and
the Mechanicville Alliance unani¬
mously adopted the following: and
Whereas, The money sharks
goldbugs have contracted the volume
of money so that there is practically the
no money in the country to move
cotton crop; and,
Whereas, Congress does not seem to
intend to give the necessary relief in
time to save us from bankruptcy;
therefore, be it
‘ ‘Resolved, That we earnestly appeal
to the governor of South Carolina to
call an extra session of the legislature,
not later than September 15th, to pass
a stay law on all debts falling due on
or before November 15th, so that we
may be enabled to pay our debts with¬
out bankrupting ourselves and starv¬
ing our wives and children.
“Resolved, That under the
conditions there is no way whereby we
can meet our debts without sacrificing
our homes and property, which we do
not propose to do. Takes our lives,
but do not starve our wives and chil¬
dren.”
A Fatal Wreck.
A southbound freight train loaded
with merchandise, was wrecked and
partly burned about ten miles from
Brenham, Texas, on the Gulf, Colo¬
rado and Santa Fe, Friday. A prai¬
rie fire had burned away a piece of
track, and as the train came along at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, it
rushed into a bridge spanning a wide
creek. Jack Swanson, the engineer,
was killed and Fireman Dameron and
Brakeman Ford were fatally injured.
Two unknown tramps were killed and
number of others are reported to be in
the ruins.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
file Drift oi Her Progress and Pros¬
perity Brieiy Hoied
Ilappeuiugs of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
Six skeletons have been found on
President’s island, six miles from
Memphis, Tenn., supposed to be those
of the crew and passengers of the ill
fated steamer Gold Dust, which was
burned a few years ago.
Nine hundred men employed in the
shops of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad in Louisville, Ky., struck
Wednesday afternoon. It is also re¬
ported that the shop men in Bowling
Gteen, Memphis and Mobile, have
gone out.
The Panola cotton mills, located
thirteen miles south of Atlanta, at the
village of Panola, have been destroy
ed by fire and over sixty people
thrown out of employment. The loss
is estimated at over $50,000, partially
covered by insurance.
A Savannah, Ga., special of Satur¬
day says: It is now certain that the
official report of the loss of the steam¬
er City of Savannah will severely cen¬
sure the captain of two tugs and
a schooner sighted at the time the
ship lay aground off Hunting island.
Thursday Charleston had on its
working clothes and succeeded in mak¬
ing considerable progress in the work
of clearing off the wreck. There are
no idle workmen in the city, except
those who were idle from choice, and
there is no probability that there will
be unemployed people there for some
time to come.
Dispatches from Port Royal state
that no more dead bodies were found
Saturday about Port Royal, Beaufort
and the outlying islands; at least, none
were reported. The rain, which began
falling Friday night, continued
throughout the day Saturday and boat¬
men were not brave enough to row
from one island to another.
A Wilmington, N. C.,dispatch says:.
The British steamer,Erie, from Hamp¬
ton roads, arrived at Southport Friday
morning, having in tow an abandoned
bark Linder, supposed to be Norwe¬
gian, picked up at sea. The bark is
loaded with mahogany and is water¬
logged. The captain of the steamer
reports having seen two more aban¬
doned vessels near the same place.
Augusta’s cotton season for 1892-93
closed Thursday. Her receipts for
the year were 16,827 bales, which is
26,766 bales less than last year. The
reduction is due to the fact that the
crop -was short. Prospects for the en¬
suing season are very promising, and
it is believed the receipts for the next
twelve months will reach 200,000 bales.
At Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, Judge
Clarke, in the superior court, decided
that Steve Ryan was not in contempt
of court. After being placed under
the ban of the law as if he were a
criminal for twenty-five months, dur
ing.thirteen of which he was confined
in jail, he was pronounced a free man.
This practically ends one of the most
protracted cases of litigation in the
history of Fulton county.
A Jacksonville special says: There
is no yellow fever in Florida. The
state has a clean bill of health. A dis¬
patch received from State Health Offi¬
cer Porter at the state health office
Sunday states that the sickness of
Newmann, at Port Tampa, announced
on the 29th as yellow fever, is not
yellow fever, as a subsequent diagnosis
shows. He has since declared all re¬
strictions off and the people may go to
Port Tampa and come as they please.
A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says:
Chester Scott, the noted train robber
and desperado and convicted of ’ mur¬
dering Sheriff McGinnis, of Gordon
county, along with five other prison¬
ers in the Floyd eounty jail, escaped
Saturday night shortly after 7 o’clock.
The escape was most daring. Jailer
Copeland was knocked down, his wife
and mother were run over and with
crowded streets within a few feet all
made good their escape.
A Nashville special of Thursday
says: The threatened strike of the
machinists and other shopmen at
Louisville and one or two other points
along the Louisville and Nashville had
railway system has not yet any
effect on the local situation. Train¬
men and shopmen are at their posts
as usual. The shops at Decatur and
Mobile, Ala., Howells, Ind., and Mem¬
phis, have been closed by order of th®
company for two or threee days.
Everything is quiet in these cities.
Several deputy sheriffs of Birming¬
ham, Ala., with a number of blood¬
hounds, arrived in Clarke county Sat
urday night, where they went on a
telegraphic call from the sheriff of
that county. They say they have
found the trail of the Meacham gang
of outlaws. The sheriff of that coun¬
ty anticipates serious trouble in cap¬
turing them, and has called for depu¬
ties from a number of counties. It
was given out a few days ago that the
gang had made their escape and left
the state, but the report was untrue.
You can’t tell much about a man’s religion
by the noise he makes at camp meeting.